Largest transnational criminal communities and main types of their criminal activities

The article analyzes the characteristics, capacity and the main types of criminal businesses, the most notorious criminal gangs whose activities had acquired an international dimension, giving rise to the phenomenon of the transnational organized crime. During the research, the author notes that in spite of the apparent need for the development and implementation of various control measures over considered and a number of other kinds of transnational organized criminal activity, timeliness and effectiveness of the solution of this problem still leave much to be desired. This can be explained by a number of circumstances. These include: the real stock of financial and human resources of each State; the extent of corruption within the State apparatus; the specifics of the relationship of criminal groups and separate links to the political and economic systems in certain countries.